WAC payouts to teams lessening

This is as surprising as the sun rising in the east. How each athletic department will react is the key to this news.

WAC's payout shrinks
Ferd Lewis
Honolulu Advertiser
June 29, 2009

Without a Bowl Championship Series representative for the first time in three years, the University of Hawai'i and the rest of the Western Athletic Conference are taking a considerable hit in the wallet.

Today is the final day of the fiscal year for the nine-member WAC and most of its members, including UH, which receives $1.12 million, will be getting smaller disbursement checks than the two previous years.

Two years ago UH received $1.433 million, nearly $400,000 of it resulting from Boise State's victory in the Fiesta Bowl. Last year UH earned $4.92 million, approximately $3.8 million from the Warriors' appearance in the Sugar Bowl against Georgia...

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